You're assuming only suicidal people commit suicide. Many people have commited suicide for some "greater good", I believe that in some ancient times (I really don't remember who, probably some Romans) gave the occupied people a choice of either giving some land and belonging or something or having the head of the family commit suicide (or something like that, dunno where I heard it or if it's even reliable, but you surely get the idea).

:/ I actually had a paragraph on that, but it got lost due to lag and i was too lazy to replace it.

Self-Sacrifice is honorable in most cases, for your country, family, etc.
-Japanese suicide, the senpoku or w/e, the one where you kill yourself because you have dishonored something, is stupid though.

:/ I actually had a paragraph on that, but it got lost due to lag and i was too lazy to replace it.

Self-Sacrifice is honorable in most cases, for your country, family, etc.
-Japanese suicide, the senpoku or w/e, the one where you kill yourself because you have dishonored something, is stupid though.

It's as stupid to you as is switching jobs for a better pay to them

Their culture is quite unique

Originally Posted by -WØW''

Bcuz i have experience with this..
When my mother was pregnant of my sister..When she was almost born, the doctor said she is not alive anymore...The heart of my sister was not hitting anymore...So my mum requested god to save her, And he did it...Now she is alive and with a good life ^^

Belive him for real and you will know..

I prayed to Satan that my sibling would be a brother. Guess what? Satan exists.

armalite,how are miracles explained?
because God is a great explanation,no?
(talking about ignorance...)
my grandma lost her older son when he was 2,and she was pregnant with my mother after that.
doctors diagnosed that my mother would either die or be born retarded.Neither happened.
My grandma prayed and made a Tama(I think it's ex-voto in english).My mother was born perfectly normal
smarter actually xD
explain this,and countless more.

depends. sometimes you don't wanna deal with the crap anymore. other times, rage or sadness clouds your mind when you do it. sometimes you've witnessed or been though sometime so horrific that you just end it.

:/ I don't get it, they don't switch jobs for better pay? or I don't? Either one i find false but w/e.
-The act of suicide for dishonor is almost non-existent now.

50/50 chance there.

The few Japanese people I know still tell me that this whole honor thing is still present, albeit not in the extreme form that led to suicides. But yeah, if you worked for a firm for like a decade and got offered a better job elsewhere it would be, at least for a "traditional" Japanese guy quite dishonorable to leave his current employer. No doubt that nowadays more people do that, especially if the benefits outweigh the minimal negative consequences.